About

Who is William Speruzzi?

William is a father.

William is a New Yorker.

William likes rooting for the underdog.

William knows the true meaning of a “regular” coffee.

William has been to CBGBs.

William has seen the Ramones.

William has met Andy Warhol.

William has driven a cab for ten years.

William has worked as a writer, director, producer and editor.

He has also worked in film and commercial production and post-production for such clients as HBO, MTV, Sacchi & Sacchi and Panasonic. This was followed by a stint as a producer of industrials for the NYC health care unions. In 2005 he wrote and directed the short film from his original script The Face of the Earth that was a Quarterfinalist in the CineStory Screenwriting Awards 2003 Short Category. His screenplay Dyre Avenue about an aging cab driver working as a drug courier for a corrupt NYPD officer was in the BlueCat Screenwriting 2007 Competition Top Ten Percent. William has worked professionally as an editor under his own banner cutting shorts, industrials, commercials, and promos. Since then he has written Every Dog’s Day, a feature length screenplay about a desperate father, a lost son and a rabid dog.

Currently, he is working on a new screenplay when he’s not picking his son up from pre-school.

William lives in an undisclosed neighborhood in Brooklyn with his lovely Linda and their beautiful son Nico.

This Savage Art gets its title from the Robert Polito penned biography of pulp novelist Jim Thompson Savage Art.